Indiana University of Pennsylvania (Academy of Culinary Arts)

IUP offers a premier culinary arts curriculum for students interested in pursuing a professional career in the food industry. Fully accredited by the American Culinary Federation, the culinary arts department is housed at the IUP Academy of Culinary Arts in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania.

The Academy of Culinary Arts offers an accelerated sixteen-month culinary program, a baking and pastry arts program and culiinary and bachelor degree combination programs with IUP’s Hospitality Management and Food and Nutrition departments.

In the Culinary Arts major, you will learn culinary techniques such as masterful knife skills and how to create artistic plate presentations. You will discover how to fashion stunning showpieces and how to garnish grand buffets. You’ll learn classical cookery and international cuisines.

At the same time, you will be honing your business skills. You’ll learn how to develop a unique menu and design the kitchen to produce it. You’ll study management and motivation of employees, leadership and communication skills, purchasing and cost controls, and computer applications in food service.

You’ll also learn to apply your skills. First you will operate our gourmet restaurant. And finally you will work with an executive chef during a paid externship in your last semester of culinary studies.

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